It’s not just migrants threatened by Abbott’s razor wire. Federal agents are also in danger

Earlier this week, The Houston Chronicle exposed a complaint from a state Department of Public Safety trooper charging his superiors with ordering officers to "push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande" if it looks like migrant families would otherwise make it through the razor wire that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials ordered be strung for miles along the riverbank.

That wouldn't be the only apparent crime being committed by state officials, troopers, and national guardsmen along the river. A new Chronicle story reports that the deadly river traps are being constructed on private lands, without the permission of landowners. Even more significantly, it looks like Texas officials are deploying the razor wire in an attempt to interfere with federal Border Patrol operations in the same area. State troopers are lining the river with razor-wire traps that block Border Patrol agents from accessing it or attempting migrant rescues themselves, and it looks like that was the state government’s plan all along.